Apple Drops Shuffle Price to $49

Looking for a reason to go screenless? Apple ended the long weekend with a price-cut to its low-end iPod Shuffle player, pricing the 1GB model at $49. The company has also rolled out 2GB model priced at $69.

“At just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing, in a release issued this morning. “The new 2GB model lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle.”

The newly priced 1GB model is available immediately via Apple’s site. The 2GB model will debut later this month.